Of course, like fellow teammates Manny Gamburyan and Roman Mitichyan, Magakian does want you to know it’s not advisable to challenge him.

“I told the guys, ‘Everybody be professional,” Magakian told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “‘Don’t do something stupid.’ I scared them off. I said, ‘Don’t you [expletive] with me, or I’m going to [expletive] you guys up. If you do something crazy, I will cut your [expletive] throat right there.'”

Those first few minutes of social interaction are a fairly good indication of what you can expect from Magakian on this season of “The Ultimate Fighter 12.” He’s been training since childhood for this opportunity, and he plans on making the most of it.

“I started doing judo and sambo when I was 5 years old,” Magakian said. “I continued in sambo, and I became a black belt when I was 11 or 12 years old. I did pretty good there. I won a lot of championships, and I beat a lot of good guys.

“I moved down to the U.S. when I was 14 or 15, and I started training with the Hayastan team with Gokor Chivichyan and Manny, Roman and Karo.”

Like his teammates, Magakian remains proud of his Armenian heritage, and he says his ethnicity often forced him to defend his honor on the streets of Southern California.

“I was in trouble all my life,” Magakian admits. “I was always getting in fights.

“Being the Armenian group, some people look at you in a weird way. So you say, ‘What are you looking at?’ and it starts a fight. That’s pretty much it.”

Magakian’s aggression and sense of honor led him into trouble in high school, and it cost him a potential shot at competing in the collegiate ranks.

“There was like two weeks left from graduating, and they kicked me out of high school because I beat up the security guy,” Magakian said. “At the time, you couldn’t use cell phones in school, and he tried to take [my cell phone] away from me.

“He was a big guy, and I just knocked him down and walked straight to the office because I knew they were going to come after me. They expelled me right away.”

Due to his status in the U.S., Magakian also couldn’t compete at an international level, and the hunger for competition left him desiring something more.

“When I came here, I was training with Gokor,” Magakian said. “I did a lot of judo and stuff. I was a California champion, but I couldn’t go to the Olympics or big national things because I wasn’t a citizen, so I saw that Manny and Karo were fighting and Roman was fighting. I was looking at them and I thought, ‘Man, I have the skills. I can do this.’

“I started training with grappling and everything. I worked on my boxing, but I was pretty much a judo guy. It worked pretty good for me. I was like 20 or 21, and I said, ‘I want to fight. I want to try it to see.’ I fought, I beat the guy in probably 40 seconds. All of my wins are first-round submissions.”

Indeed, Magakian’s eight professional wins have come in just 14 minutes and 30 seconds of total work. Sure, he’s had a few losses along the way, too, but he’s confident his opponents respected the challenge he presented in each case.

Magakian insists he’s matured from his hot-tempered street-fighting roots. He’s joined on the show by his current training partner Sako Chivitchian (though he said producers won’t let the two communicate with each other in Armenian), and he’s received loads of instruction from Gamburyan, who made it to the finals of “The Ultimate Fighter 5,” as well as Mitichyan, who made a brief – yet memorable – appearance on “The Ultimate Fighter 6.”

In short, don’t expect Magakian to break his signature intensity until he’s secured his six-figure contract.

“[My teammates] told me to go out there and concentrate,” Magakian said. “Don’t make any friends. … Train as much as you can, and be careful. Eat well and sleep well so you can be ready for your next fight. You never know when you’re going to fight.

“I’m humble and down to earth. I don’t mess with anybody, but if you mess with me, I’m going to [expletive] you up. I’m just trying to be professional.”

MMAjunkie.com interviewed all 14 of “The Ultimate Fighter 12’s” preliminary round winners, each of whom was featured in the debut episode of “TUF 12: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck.” Two new interviews will be released each day from now until the season’s second episode airs next Wednesday at 10 p.m. PT/ET on Spike TV. Full series coverage can be found on “The Ultimate Fighter 12” page.

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